male 60-70

“Is Lorenzo with you?” This is the phone call that Lorenzo’s friends receive from his wife Cheryl on a regular basis. Larry (aka Lorenzo) refuses to own a mobile phone. “Out of it and proud of it” is how my wife describes her particular rejection of our digital romance with iDevices and always-on availability. Larry, I believe, would concur.

Larry is friendly guy who has been known to invite near strangers (my wife and I as an example) into his home for a dinner party, but try and get him onto a social network or any other kind of 21st century technology, and you hit an implacable wall.

My concept behind this portrait was to surround Larry with the technology he rejects so utterly, and give his friends some payback for being his receptionist and answering service. The idea was to surround him with his iPhone-nemeses… replete with snapshots of Larry, shot by his friends, all taken on their iPhones. It was a fun idea and the guys were all into it.

The iPhone at bottom best expresses Larry’s orientation to the whole thing.

All in all though, he was a good sport about the brief photo session, we all had a good laugh and went on with our gourmet meal and uh… drinking.

Sent from my iPad, hah!